“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

“I didn't mean to make it sound like we don't want children. We don't, but I didn't mean to make it sound like that.”

“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”

“The deadline was two months earlier, but like myself Mike considered deadlines in financial rather than chronological terms.”

“From 'We Being Ghosts'
Well, good to see you. Sorry I have to fly.
I'm struggling with a deadline, God knows why,
And ghosts keep interrupting. Think of me
The way I do of you. Quite often. Constantly.”

“Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”

“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

“The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.”